{"id":978,"date":"2009-01-12T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/the-year-of-silence-kevin-brockmeier\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T16:20:18","slug":"the-year-of-silence-kevin-brockmeier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/12\/the-year-of-silence-kevin-brockmeier\/","title":{"rendered":"the year of silence. kevin brockmeier."},"content":{"rendered":"

Moments of mysterious silence. ALL SILENT. And then it’s gone. Leaving everyone wondering and feeling a weird sense of loss. Like someone or something had jerked them away from a warm light they didn’t know they were moving toward. <\/p>\n

It seems appropriate and eerie that I should read Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Year of Silence” today. (The short story originally appeared in Ecotone but it came to me as part of The Best American Short Stories series…)<\/p>\n

If you’re facing me when you speak, I can hear you. I can even make out what might be voices in the next room. Though I can’t discern individual words or owners. But the running of the day noises are lost to me right now. Muffled by that sound of silence…ringing, ringing, ringing. Ugh!<\/p>\n

It’s like having my head under water and being chased around with a dog whistle that I can actually hear all at once. Tinnitus<\/a> seems to be a symptom of this some-kind-of-bug that’s set up house in my body these last three weeks. <\/p>\n

It’s not an enjoyable feeling. But it certainly went a long way to making me appreciate and see the genius in the little piece of science fiction that is “The Year of Silence”. A quick google<\/em> of the author tells me he’s with Random House. It also tells me his novel “A Brief History of the Dead” is one I’ll want to pick up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moments of mysterious silence. ALL SILENT. And then it’s gone. Leaving everyone wondering and feeling a weird sense of loss. Like someone or something had jerked them away from a warm light they didn’t know they were moving toward. It seems appropriate and eerie that I should read Kevin Brockmeier’s “The Year of Silence” today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3114,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}